Re: Do we need /dev/sequencer anymore?

On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM M. Mader <mma@darktemple.ch> wrote:
> On 17 May 2025 20:55:38 UTC, Christos Margiolis <christos@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >Tomek CEDRO wrote:
> >> On Sat, May 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM Christos Margiolis <christos@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >> > I want to clean up and modernize sys/dev/sound/midi and I'm wondering
> >> > what the use-case for /dev/sequencer is nowadays, if any. Does anyone
> >> > know of any application, or someone, who relies on this? If not, I think
> >> > we could go ahead and get rid of it.
> >>
> >> Although MIDI is not popular anymore for music generation in computer
> >> games, it is still widely used in music industry as protocol/bus for
> >> various keyboards and controllers, so I would not remove it if its
> >> there and working :-)
> >>
> >> Also this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUPs2pv5d_g :-)
> >
> >I am not proposing to remove MIDI support in general, just
> >/dev/sequencer. Regarding the rest of the MIDI codebase, I just want to
> >clean it up, fix bugs and in general modernize it.
> >
> >Christos
> >
>
> Speaking of modernizing MIDI. MIDI 2.0 has been out a while now, and it's just a matter of time that it will become relevant.
>
> <https://github.com/midi2-dev>

Whoah! Thank Mathias :-)

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